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The move comes days after the US ordered China to shut its consulate in Houston, Texas.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced a $1 billion loan to Latin America and the Caribbean for Covid-19 vaccine access during a virtual gathering with his Latin American counterparts on Wednesday, according to a statement released by the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry.

Renaming a company is always going to be a complicated undertaking, but rarely does it hit the levels of controversy currently swirling around China Airlines, Taiwan’s largest air carrier.

This week, billions of people were supposed to be tuning in to the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

Sweden’s State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that, despite the country’s high mortality rate, the no-lockdown strategy has “served us very well.”

A former Nazi concentration camp guard was convicted of thousands of counts of being an accessory to murder and given a two-year suspended prison sentence Thursday, a court announced.

The president says he told his team “it’s not the right time” for a “big, crowded convention”.

The US justice department says the researchers lied about their membership of China’s armed forces.

The UK says the Russian satellite launched “a projectile with the characteristics of a weapon”.

A scientist who allegedly lied about military ties is said to be inside China’s San Francisco mission.